Reading campaign is a good thing

The launch to encourage reading and leading is setting a positive example to motivated students, teachers, parents and the community for cooperative endeavours promoting Bangkok’s purported starring role as the World Book Capital. 

It is hoped that the anticipated collaborative efforts with more than 20 leading public and private organisations will expand to more than 100 related campuses, companies and corporations, recommending innovative learner-focused, self-access electronic materials through social networks like Facebook.

Especially targeting academic drop-outs and push-outs, a general education literacy campaign should aggressively provide self-help opportunities to motivated taxi drivers, waiters, clerks – whatever – to raise their academic skills to at least a Mathayom 6 equivalency level, imitating the Sukothai University independent study model. 

I also enthusiastically encourage young and old adults alike to participate in the Bangkok Authority’s excellent career expansion initiatives offered free of charge in such marketable professions as therapeutic massage, Thai food preparation, fruit and vegetable carving, barber training and hairdresser styling. 

I especially like the fact that these accredited courses emphasise practical application rather than strictly theoretical approaches.

Charles Frederickson

Bangkok